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GAEEET CLEANER.

No. 371,109. Patented Oct. 4, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. i

WILLIAM H. TRISSLEB, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO y JOHNATIIAN l?. ABBOTT, OF SAME PLACE.

CARPET-CLEANER.

EPECIFCATION farming part of Letters Patent No. 371,109, dated October 4, 1887.

Application tiled April 9, 1884. Serial No. 127,242.

To @ZZ whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. TRIssLER, of Cleveland, in the'county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Carpet-Cleaning Machines, ofwhich the t'ollowingis aspecitication.

My invention relates to carpetcleaning machines; and it consists in the improvements hereinafter described and set t'orth.

1o In the accompanying drawing the figure represents in perspective a carpet-cleaning machine constructed in accordance with my invention.

The machine consists of a triangular-shaped x5 cage made of slats A and provided with trunnions C,set in boXes supported by any suitable frame-work, and having a driving-Wheel, D, for giving rotary motion to the same. The ends or heads of said cage are made of slats a,

2o which are arranged so as to leave openings between the same, and are secured in this form, so as to give strength and stiffness. The said slats a are extended at one end,so as to present the side port-ions for pockets or subchambers B, each of which is of triangular form, as represented in the accompanying drawing. Each pocket B is so arranged relatively to the cage that each of the triangular pockets does not drop the carpet therefrom until the triangle 3o constituting the pocket B arrives at a vertical position.

E refers to a door through which the carpets are introduced into the machine.

' By having the cage of the triangular forni described the carpet falls the greatest width or diameter of the triangle, so as to be most effectively cleaned in its movement.

With all the other forms of carpet-cleaning machines with which I have been acquainted 4o the sides and pockets have been so arranged as to intercept the fall of the carpet before it had traveled a proper distance, which neces sarily prevents the carpet leaving the dust which has been beaten out of it.

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I am also aware that the triangular form has 4 5 heretofore been used in coal screens or sitters; but in such construction for that purpose no pockets are employed, nor is the result of the operation of the machine the same. In such screens and sifters'the ashes, coal, Ste., being 5o separate particles and not a connected mass as a carpet, do not receive thelong falls across the cage thatthe carpet does, nor do they requireit.

I would not be understood as claiming, broadly, the triangular form of cage, as in order to make it efficient the pockets must be added in the angles, which cause the carpets to be carried clear up to the highest point and then dropped across the entire width of the cage each time. 6o

I am also aware that the pockets, broadly, are not new. They have been added to the four corners of the rectangular cages; but in such cages they do not possess the advantages which their addition to the triangle insures. In the rectangular cagethey bear Asuch a rela tion to the revolvingside walls as to cause the cage to dump its contents before it reachesthe highest point, and at the same time the side walls ofthe cage are notin position to receive 7o the carpet or toA allow it to fall entirely across the width of the cage, as the construction I show and claim would do. Y

I claim- The combination, in a carpet-cleaning niachine, ofa cage or body of triangular form and composed of open slats, as described, the open slats of the heads being tiussed and extended beyond the triangle, horizontal slats combined therewith to present triangular pockets B, and 8o trunnions and drivingwheel, substantially as set forth.`

VILLIAM H. TRISSLER.

l Witnesses:

GEO. W. TIBBITTs, M. G. N onron. 

